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Square Appointments vs Booksy for Barber Shops

2 vendors, 4 features that decide the choice for barber shop bookings. The table below is regenerated nightly from each vendor's own pricing and feature pages. Every claim points to where it came from.

feature Square Appointments our pick Booksy
pricing Free plan; Plus $49/mo; Premium $149/mo; Pro custom (for businesses processing more than $250k/yr). Flat $29.99/mo + $20/mo per additional team member.
best for Shops on a single Square stack — Appointments inherits the Square Retail / Square POS hardware and unified card processing.Shops where each chair is a separate barber, who all need their own calendar; flat-fee + per-staff pricing maps cleanly to that model.
Walk-in tracking not specifically documented not specifically documented
Recurring appointments Yes — recurring + multi-staff appointment booking on Plus and above Yes — standard booking + no-show protection workflows
Online booking Yes — online booking site and integrations included on the free plan Yes — branded Booksy listing + booking widget
POS integration Yes — native Square POS, Retail POS, and Square Reader hardware Yes — BBPOS WisePOS E and Stripe Reader M2 hardware documented; in-app card payments with documented processing fees

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Pricing

  • Square Appointments has a free plan and paid tiers at Plus $49/mo and Premium $149/mo.
  • Booksy charges $29.99/mo + $20/mo per additional barber.

For a 4-chair shop with 3 additional barbers on Booksy: ~$90/mo, comparable to Square Plus once hardware and processing fees are factored in.

POS and payments integration

Barber shops are POS-heavy — every transaction is a card swipe.

  • Square's killer feature here is that Appointments is integrated with the same Square POS / Retail POS / Square Reader hardware you'd already be using behind the chair. No second vendor.
  • Booksy documents BBPOS WisePOS E and Stripe Reader M2 hardware with explicit in-app payment processing rates.

Per-barber calendars

  • Booksy's per-team-member pricing maps 1:1 to per-barber calendars.
  • Square documents unlimited staff calendars on the free plan and multi-staff appointment booking on Plus.

Bottom line

If you already run Square hardware in the shop, Square Appointments is the obvious choice — one vendor, one card processor, one customer record. If you want a barbershop-native booking marketplace presence + no-show protection, Booksy is the answer.

citations   8 primary sources
  1. [1] squareup.com/us/en/appointments/pricing — free plan
  2. [2] squareup.com/us/en/appointments/pricing — Plus $49/mo and Premium $149/mo
  3. [3] booksy.com/biz/pricing — $29.99/mo + $20/mo per additional barber
  4. [4] squareup.com/us/en/appointments/pricing — Appointments is integrated with the same Square POS / Retail POS / Square Reader hardware
  5. [5] booksy.com/biz/pricing — BBPOS WisePOS E and Stripe Reader M2 hardware
  6. [6] booksy.com/biz/pricing — per-team-member pricing
  7. [7] squareup.com/us/en/appointments/pricing — unlimited staff calendars on the free plan
  8. [8] squareup.com/us/en/appointments/pricing — multi-staff appointment booking on Plus
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